WordPress Release 4.5.1 May Have Broken Your Site

If you know our team, you know we’re a curious group of people. We are constantly reading about the latest changes in the world of Digital Marketing to ensure our clients are taken care of. The latest WordPress update has affected some of our clients’ websites and here’s what you need to know:

WordPress has released version 4.5.1 which fixes some bugs, increases security, etc. Unfortunately, this update seemed to break things with themes that are outdated.

The update is being rolled out automatically by many hosting companies (include ours, Flywheel). We noticed it caused quite a few sites to break, e.g. Google maps and videos were loading, images that had a “slide in” animation weren’t loading, etc. Our tech team has gone through our customer websites, checked them for anything that was wrong, and updated the themes for those sites, which seemed to do the trick.

We charge more for hosting and maintenance, but the benefit of this model is our customers covered when things like this happen. If you have a WordPress site without a maintenance contract, make sure your site is working properly, and if it’s not, you’re in for a surprise bill, and it may take your developer awhile to get to you if numerous sites broke in his or her portfolio.

Please contact us if you have any questions. We’re here to answer any questions you have about website development and maintenance, Search Engine Optimization, Google Adwords and marketing.